Turning Points: Essays in the History of Cultural Expressions

by Marshall Brown

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Through a combination of general reflections, studies of important critics, and both comprehensive and specific analyses of cultural change in literature, music, art, and philosophy, Turning Points demonstrates the role of style and form in promoting and shaping cultural development.

The book proposes that works do not timelessly abstract, retrospectively reflect, or passively express; instead, they promote and shape historical change...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0804727082

ISBN13:9780804727082

Release Date:January 1997

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:360 Pages

Weight:1.51 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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